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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

AN election was held in Dickinson
county Tuesday for the purpose of sub
scribing to the capital stock of the Chi
cage, Kansas & Western railroad in
the sum of 100000: also to the Chica-
go, Omaha Il Southwestern for the
same amount. Township aid was also
voted in live townships for the Chicago,
Kansas X Western, and in six town.
ships for the Chicago, Omaha s. South
western. Sufficient returns have been
received to guaran tee majority in fa-
vor of both county propositions by ma
iorities of 900 to 900. and eleven out of
twelve townships for the other propo-
sitions
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

IN his recent speech at New Orleans
Mr.. Jefferson Davis pronounced the
Johnston statue ''the best equestrian
statue of a man and horse that is to be
found in any country and now peo-
pie are wondering if the old gentle
man has ever seen an equestrian statue
that didn't represent man and a
horse
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21
Edgert0n, Kan, Jan. Tan, 1856

Edgerton, Kan, Jan. 18th, 1886.
was afflicted with rheumatism for eight
years, and it had become chronic in its
worst form, and after using one bottle OF
Athlophoros have not felt any symptom
of it for six months. 1t done more than
that; my wife was afflicted with neuralgia
for twelve years-had an attack every
month. Alter taking one bottle, six
months ago, has only felt it once or twice
since J,C. DooME.
Mrs. Thos. McCue, Sanford Block, corner
Sth and Main streets, Dubuque, Iowa, says:
al am still well. Last winter was a very
severe and cold one for me, but did not
have any return of the rheumatism. Athlo-
phoros has proven a good medicine for
me-" About year ago Mrs. McCue had
a very severe attack of infammatory rheu.
matism, in which the feet and hands were
very much swollen, SO much SO that you
could scarcely see one of the ankles, and
some.of the toe nails were completely GOV.
cred for many weeks. She had suffered
almost the agonies of death. Finally, after
resorting to various remedies with no
avail, her husband noticed the advertise
ment Of Athlophoros. The result of its use
waSmiraculous the swelling Nas soon re.
duced. the pain subdued, and she was
again up and around and has not been
troubled since.
Every druggist should keep Athloph oros
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they cam
not be bought of the druggist the AthlO-
phoros Co., liz Wall St., New York, will
send either Carriage paid) on receipt of
regular price, which is $1.O0 per bottle
for Athlophoros and Soc for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases. dyspepsia, IN.
Of women constipation' headaehS.' impurS
blood, &C.. A thlophoros Pills are unequaled q
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

WHILE other towns are voting $50
600 in bonds to pay for waterworks.
Atchison will this year receive $50. 900
from its Observation-Disclosures.
This is the strongest and best argu-
ment we have so far seen in favor of
the new waterworks in Emporia, and
shows positively that work on the res
crvoirs and dams cannot he pushed one
iota too fast.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

THE stove moulders of Leavenworth
to the number of $50 or 200 have quit
work, refusing to make patterns sent
there by the Bridge & Beach company
Of st. Louis. The moulders for the
Bridge * Beach company have struck
for an advance of ten per cent, and is
sueda circular to all other moulders to
refusethe work of that company. This
accounts for the strike ut Leaven-
worth. The employers say they ex-
pect an early settlement of the diff
cultV
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21
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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

TUE committee to raise funds to en-
tertain the G.. y. r. at st. Louis raised
$4,000 in ten hours on Thursday last.
Seven 6. \. II. posts lead the list with
$1,000, and the brewers come next
with $500. The committee have asked
for further time. and it is expected that
over 500, 600 viii be raised. and that
the reception given to the boys by the
Mound City will far surpass anything
ever heretofore seen or experienced.
Wonder what the Kansas City papers
will find in this to sneer at?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

THE New York Tribune, comment
ing upon the financial outlook, says:
THE belief is almost universal that
money is going to be easy until next
fall. April settlements have passed,
and with remarkably little friction, con-
sidering that dividend payments at
Boston alone amounted to ST., 1852 ,0iS,
against S7,06l, i'll at the same date last
year, partly owing to IS, 900, 900 capital
payments for the Oregon navigation
and to some others of like character.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

IT'S a lamentable fact that the re
cent election in Kansas has been the
most vigorously lied about of any in it's
history. -Leavenworth Times.
Correct. And some people are so
prejudiced as to accuse the Times of
being the boss liar.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

Columns could be written about the
weird and wonderful life of
Mayor Webster that would
read more like romance and
fiction than solid fact. Not long since
MaSterson, the noted desperado. was
running the city of Dodge and defying
the law. Mayor Webster did not cali
upon some timid and nerveiess police
officer a block away to enforce the law
and arrest the desperate man, armed
shooters. He went out into the middle
Of the street with his shot gun aimed
at Masterson and said in language en-
phatic if not strictly canonical and or
thodoX: "D-n you, throw up your
hands or you are dead man." Mas
terson dropped his pistols and threw
up his hands, and the law was en-
forced from that day in Dodge City.
Last Wednesday hummer came up
to Mayor Webster and attempted to
congratulate him over his election. He
had villainously lied about Webster, so
it is claimed, during election day.
Webster raised his cane and broke it
into splinters over the mans head,
knocking him fiat to the ground, and
added, Oh you, you can lie about
me, but you must not dare to speak to
me, even to congratulate me over my
election" It is men of this kind of
nerve and real nobility of nature that
prohibition has developed. The good
women of Dodge City and the reform
element did well to support and elect
| 30 brave and so noble a man as Mr..
| Webster as the mayor of that city.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

TIE English government has notified
the authorities of the Island of Hayti
that its claim Of 81 900, 900 must be
paid, and if not paid promptly, it will
foreclose on the Island of Tortugas,
one of the outlying provinces of the
Haytien government. Tortugas lies
north of IIayti, is about thirty miles
long, and is well supplied with timber
and water.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

THE Leavenworth Times is able to
extract large amount of sunshine
and comfort from the late election in
that city. 1t says the law-and-order
party elected all their candidates for
councilmen and reduced Neeley's ma
jority from 200 to 16.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

AT 10 o'clock of the evening of April
IA, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot by
J. Wilkes Booth, in Ford's theatre
Washington City. He died at 7:22
O'Clock the next morning, April 10.
just twenty-five years ago. Mr.. Lin
coin is one of the few characters that
will live in history, standing out prom
inently amongst the very foremost few.
He was as grand man as ever lived.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

The Odd Fellows of Indiana are
about to erect a monument to the mem
DRY of Vice President Schuyler Colfax,
who was very prominent member of
that order, and the originator of the
degree Of Rebekah.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be used for children
teething. 1t soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind
collie, and is best remedy for diar-
rhea. Twenty-Five cents. a bottle.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

SINCE the new prohibitory law went
into force in this state the Kansas City
and other wholesale dealers in intoxi-
cants reports that their Kansas bust
ness has largely decreased.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21
SertonaIx Injured.

~ Roush, a switchman in the Santa
Fe yards at this place was crushed be-
tween the draw pieces of two freight
cars while he was making coupling
about o'clock Thursday morn. He will
not probably live.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

THE advertising columns of a city
newspaper are good mediums whereby
to judge whether city is in a prosper
GUS condition or not. Look at THE
News. Carefully scan her ''ads.''
What is the verdict.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

EMPoRIA people should take great
comfort in reading kilograms from
Maine TO the effect that 1.-The beautiful
snow is fast disappearing, and there is
now only four and one-half feet on the
level at Blanchard
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

THE Des Moines Register thinks
that ''if Ingersoll could only be con-
verted-and converted clear through
he would come nearest of any one to
filling the vacant Plymouth pulpit
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

From 34,OGe to So 900 cubic miles of
rain falls every year upon the surface
of this globe The rivers carry of
barely one-half; the rest disappears
by evaporation, by the absorption OF
the earth, and by being taken up by
plants, animals, and mineral oxidation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

THE Atchison Patriot, in an edito-
rial on Tuesday last, threatens to go
into personal journalism and to reflect
the worst side of humanity, claiming
that the smuttier an Atchison paper is
the better it is patrOnized. The follow
ing is a specimen of its wall:
1t is the general impression that to
make paper successful in Atchison it
must be mean; that its prosperity de-
ponds largely upon the disposition and
ability of its editors to abuse and ma
Ign mankind, and to make the
paper a reflex of the worst side
of society. There is really a substan-
tial basis for such an impression, and
there is too much truth in the remark
made by citizen lately: Mine men
in Atchison will buy a newspaper to
read abuse of and scandal about citi-
zen where one will buy to read of praise
and commentator. The newspapers,
of course, hold that they never abuse
and malign, and claim that what they
say is demanded for the good of So
ciety. Both claims are false for Atchi-
son people, by their actions, recognize
that they are correct, and therefore,
the Patriot may be compelled, for the
good of society, hereafter to devote
some of its space upon which to spread
more sombre pictures than it has here
toforc presented its readers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

PERSONS who have friends in other
states, especially east, would do well
to mail them a copy of the News of to-
day, and thus add their mite to help
advertise our beautiful and booming
CITY.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

I. DWIGHT TEACHER has sold the
State Printing Office TO G. E. Baker,
the recently elected State printer
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

AMERICAN expressions travel. In
his speech at the great meeting at
Hyde Park on Monday Michael Davitt
said, I'VE will hold the fort in Ire
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

Granville, Mass, is the center and
heart of the drum making business of
the United States. 1t turns out daily
about 200 drums.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

THE EMPoRIA NEWS still does not
catch on to the State Journals idea
about advertising patronage. To be
more explicit, we will say to THE News
that we prefer to have single column
advertisement at 81 an inch, than a
double column one at 50 an inch, par
ticularly when the contract to take the
two column one would necessitate a
supplement or larger size of
paper, and consequently an in
creased cost for every copy of the
issue printed. Furthermore, we'll
displayed single column adYe' tisement
in four-paged newspaper is of more
value to the advertiser than double
column in twelve or siXteen-page pa
per.-State journal.
We catch on. Nevertheless, we had
to increase the size of our paper by q
column to each page to-day, and even
then were forced to refuse ''ads.'
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

Judge harrington issued marriage
license Wednesday to LIMERICK IVAN
denburg and Miss Augusta Marx, both
of Americas.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

J. @. Burchfeld his S4. reR Rises,
sITithsng shop oue-haIf block cast OF his old
stand, where hewin be pleased to see all of
his old customers and many new ones. he
e now In larger and more convenient quar-
tiers, and has Secured the services Of an xpef-
fenced wagon maker, and Is now prepared
70 turn out the very best Of work Ia his line
TOOL WAGON, and PI4OW WORK
and all branches of the trade. Remember
the place MORT SIDE SECOND AVENUE
les STREETS
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21
A RuaIneaa man,a Opinion,

Our reporter Thursday had converse
ton with Cass Cason, the genial repre-
sentative of Bradstreets agency, who is
in town on business, upon being asked
what he thought of Emporia, he said: 81
like Emporia. OF all the towns 1 have
visited in Kansas she seems to me to
be the most substantial, the handsome
est and the most promising. Your bust
ness men are enterprising and your
citizens are solid, intelligent-looking
men. Emporia ought to BOOM"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21
Chicago, Emporia and Southwestern

at the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Chicago, Emporia and
Southwestern Railway Company, held
in this city Wednesday, "a new Board of
Directors were elected, and also the
following officers: II. C. Cross, Presi-
dent; VIM. Martindale, Vice Presi-
dent; and C. Hood, Secretary and
Treasurer.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

SEVENTEEN states of the Union and
six territories bear Indian names.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21
A sWINDLER

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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21
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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21
The CosmopoIitan

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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-24
CONDENSED NEWS.
Moro European War Reports.

The London Times dispatches from Ber-
lin show the relations OF France and Ger
many. in spite OF the statement minimizing
the gravity OF the situation, to be
dangerously strained Adviccs from
other quarters indicate growing I'M
patience on the part OF France
"a disposition to bring matters to
an issue 1t is significantly asserted in
French teegrams that France, although
not desiring a conflict is now ready to de-
lend herself. At Pesth, recently, the Hun
gariap minister ofnational defense obtained
his vote OF credit OF seven millions from the
diet on account OF war stores and material
and the equipment OF the landstrum. At
Vienna the Austrian reichrath ais o grant,
cd a vote on account of L., 900, 900 flor
ms for the equipment of the landwehr
The war office is letting heavy contracts
Tor all descriptions OF stores for active SER
vice in the field. European opinion is unable
to accept these enormous and ruinous pre-
parations any longer as an election dodge
to give Bismarck a majority i'll the Ger
man reichstag. but recognizes the fact that
a general war is regarded by the four mill
tary powers as Inevitable. The Times
summing up the situation in the Balkans,
saws:
The serious impression prevails that
peace cannot longer be preserved in the
East OF Europe. Austria is conscious of
the pressure threatening her existence as
Il great power, and is prudently preparing
to maintain her position in the Balkans.
The whole OF Macedonia is manifesting
uneasiness. Russian agents are preparing
the entire country for a rising and warn
ing the people that the time is near at
hand when Russia will come to their de-
iverance.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-24
GOLD AND SILVER.

Along her fathers field they strayed,
All hecked with cowslips yellow,
A little dainty gold-haired maid,
A sturdy 9-year fellow.
And there loves course they two began,
{Ah. thorny path for treadingD
And vowed when they were maid and man
The town should see a wedding.
Their golden curls were blown and blent
Through watts of fragrance treading:
'And ohw they murmured well content,
"'Twill be golden wedding!"
"'Tis time" said he, 'to claim her vow,"
And forth he went and found her;
But she was grown beauty now,
And half the town was round her.
VI see," says he, ''you don't want naeh'-
Though tears were ripe for shedding.
"Im glad your ewes are good" says She
All, where's that golden wedding!
He flung away, and left her there,
Such heartsore tear-drops shedding,
And gossips cried, in blank despair
Hes spoiled the rarest wedding"
He sailed the seas, he beat the French,
Two score good years he tarried,
And then he thought, THAT little wench--
Iwonder If she's marriedr'
Next week a bluff old tar rolled past,
The gabled High street treading,
An ancient gossips crowed, "At last
We're like to have the weddiugr'
She'd waited for him forty years
The gray their locks were threading;
And some with smiles and some with tears,
Beheld their silver wedding,
f. Langbridgc, in Good Words.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-24

the great bear was alive, and rnat
he was approaching the tunnel at full
speed. 1t was evident that he had seen
me as ran into the chapparal, and that
he was determined to catch me. then
understood why my comrade had call
ed me. Instantly realized that was
going to be killed in horrible manner.
/ could not get through the tunnel be-
fore the bear entered its lower mouth.
/ could not back out could not turn
around. | had not time to load my
rife, and / had not sufficient room to
fight effectively with my knife. Nearer
and nearer came the bear. My heart
ceased to beat almost. | was in regu-
lar funk. The bear was almost at the
mouth of the tunnel. / could see
blood trickling from wound in his
neck. His eyes were shining and his
teeth glistening. In another instant he
would enter the tunnel. Just as his
shadow darkened the entrance I saw a
puff of powder smoke shoot against his
head and he fell, and then. indistinctly,
| heard the faint report of a rifle. 1t
sounded as though it was mile away.
Directly saw my comrade seat himself
on the bear and heard him call to me.
/ was too weak to answer him. l lay
down in the tunnel to rest for an in
slant, and then crawled out into the
daylight and sat On the bear alongside
of my comrade and grasped his hand
strongly. That was good comrade.
''Ah." said Pratt, ''he was a man..
When he saw that the bear was not
dead, and that he was running for the
tunnel, he knew that | would be killed
if the bear caught me in there. There
was but one thing for him to do-he
had to Kill the bear Or get killed. He
had but one SHOT, as there were no
breech-loading guns in those days. He
sank behind the bowlder close to the
mouth of the tunnel, cooked his rife.
brought it TO his shoulder and waited.
When the bear, intent on catching me.
ran into rifles sights he pulled the
trigger. Fortunately the ball entered
the bears ear and killed him instantly.
1t does not sound like a great feat but
not one man in thousand has sufficient
nerve and devoted courage to do ii"
Pratt ceased to talk. The recollec-
tons of his old comrade trooped around
him. He was affected. He turned
away from me, arose, walked off to the
forest few rods and attempted to
whistle l rolled my blankets around
ME and left him with his memories
Frank Hlikeson, IN NesO York Sun.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-24
The Politician.

The politician is an expert of assur-
ance, or, at least he believes in having
a policy,
He is like broken bank, because he
lacks principle.
He is like a pawnbroker. because his
industry depends on his interest.
He is | Ike ST. Paul, because he lis all
things to all men,"
he is like a ball, because he lies on all
sides.
He is like circus performer, because
he gains in the ring.
He is like n harp. because he is a
modern specimen of a Tyre.
He is like the Arctic and the Antarc-
tic circles. because he is to be found
about the polls.
He is like the iron man, because he
finds profit in steal.
He is like telegraph lineman, be-
cause he manipulates the wires.
He is like the dentist, because he Of
ten takes tie stump. 7eras Sutimgs.